“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan”

— Carlos Castaneda

Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make yo…" by Carlos Castaneda?

Carlos Castaneda photo

Carlos Castaneda98

Peruvian-American author 1925–1998

Related quotes

“Dwelling upon the self too much produces a terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue makes him cease to see the marvels all around him.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

Ci-Gît (1947).

“The Bible's blind.
The Torah's deaf.
The Qur'an is mute.
If you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

Four Winds
Cassadaga (2007)

“There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..”

Andre Agassi book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“Therefore, come to our aid you who alone are able. For this rivalry exists for sake of you, whom alone they revere in everything that all seem to worship. For each one desires in all that he seems to desire only the good which you are; no one is seeking with all his intellectual searching for anything else than the truth which you are. For what does the living seek except to live? What does the existing seek except to exist?”

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer

De Pace Fidei (The Peace of Faith) (1453)

“Without “big data”, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.”

Geoffrey Moore (1946) American business writer

Geoffrey Moore, title of book chapter in: The Business Book, 2014. Dorling Kindersley Ltd, p. 316

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“What you are looking for is already in you… You already are everything you are seeking.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

Related topics